Archive for October, 2007

Video Commercial - Kenwood GPS Navigator

Wednesday, October 24th, 2007

A funny video commercial for KENWOOD GPS Navigator.

Logitech V470 a Bluetooth Laser Mouse

Sunday, October 21st, 2007

A product demo of Logitech V470 laser mouse a compact one which uses Bluetooth for wireless connection.

GPS Insight a product for tracking vehicle locations and much more

Sunday, October 21st, 2007

GPS Insight vehicle tracking system provides various features for locating vehicle movements like Activity Detail, Fuel Consumption, Speed Violations, Vehicle Diagnostics and many more. This system is build upon GPS navigation and messaging technology. A sample report provided by GPS Insight is shown below.

GPSInsight

The different reports that are available after purchasing the product are

  • Vehicle Diagnostics.
  • Landmark Report
  • Mileage usage
  • Stop report
  • Speed Report
  • Off-Hours and Alert reports
  • Idle time report.

and these reports can be run at a scheduled time and also can be emailed automatically.

The GPS Insight web page contains very good demos about the Product, New Mapping functionality , Routing, Reports, Cellphone mapping and State Mileage Demos. 

Three types of mapping that are available 

  • 2-D mapping
  • 2-D Enhanced Mapping
  • and 3-D Mapping

Some of the hardware that are required for GPS Insight setup include

  • Unit
  • OBDII Adapter
  • J1708 9-Pin Adapter
  • Universal Adapter
  • J1708 6-Pin Adapter.
  • Unit Antenna
  • TomTom 910 as Routing Hardware.

GPS Insight also provides a technical support and online support through their GPS Insight support wiki for customers. The support wiki contains the commonly asked questions and fixes of most issues.

The GPS Insight has also got a Blog for GPS vehicle tracking written by its president Mr.Rob Donat. This blog contains interesting posts related with GPS Insight and in general about GPS navigation and Vehicle Tracking System. One post that would catch most of the readers attention is about how Navtrak President Jim Duncan buys the GPS Insight product under “The LaTrobe Group” where he discusses how GPS Insight traced the real buyer and also the reply from Navtrak’s CEO explaining that

their intent was to better understand your offering and our reasoning for this would not be to copy it.

The standard product of GPS Insight includes the following

  • 90 days of history
  • Vehicle minute location updates for every 2 minutes.
  • 16 standard reports
  • Mapping current fleet location, detailed history and stop history.
  • Scheduled maintenance and Vehicle maintenance log capability.
  • Vehicle Diagnostics.
  • Landmarks capabilities.

This product would certainly attract more customers because of its dynamic and rapid feature upgrades as they constantly take inputs from their customers and keep adding valuable enhancements to their products. They have a very simple and easy way of knowing the product price by means of their pricing calculator. For more information on this click here.

Fixya a place for Technical Support, User Guides and Repair Service

Saturday, October 20th, 2007

Fixya is the largest support community and Online Knowledgebase. This site makes all the support information available for various consumer products into one single location. This portal users share their experiences with the different consumer products by providing the technical problems they have encountered or by providing technical solutions. And one important thing that stands out in fixya is that the this online community based on the real users experience.

Check out some of the solved problems.

Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 - multiple operating system at same time in same PC

Friday, October 19th, 2007

Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 is a software that allows you to run multiple operating system in the same PC at the same time. This provides lot of benefits such as easy migration, test software in different OS and also accelerate the development.

Check this video to get started with Microsoft Virtual PC 2007